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A review by toggle_fow
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I'm in love. Again.
I know I already essentially said that about the previous book but it's WHAT MY SIMPLE HEART IS FEELING, all right?!?
Murderbot being incredibly vulnerable, fallible, and also a superhuman machine literally made to kill people with maximum efficiency is what we call a truly complex character. I LOVE him/her/them. The crippling social anxiety? The inability to avoid forming attachments to helpless humans despite it? How they walk around defensive and nervous under all circumstances except during violence?
Amazing. Fantastic. Show-stopping. Murderbot may be the single most relatable character in existence. These novellas are everything I want except that they're so SHORT.
I know I already essentially said that about the previous book but it's WHAT MY SIMPLE HEART IS FEELING, all right?!?
Murderbot being incredibly vulnerable, fallible, and also a superhuman machine literally made to kill people with maximum efficiency is what we call a truly complex character. I LOVE him/her/them. The crippling social anxiety? The inability to avoid forming attachments to helpless humans despite it? How they walk around defensive and nervous under all circumstances except during violence?
Amazing. Fantastic. Show-stopping. Murderbot may be the single most relatable character in existence. These novellas are everything I want except that they're so SHORT.